Ryokan

peaceful spring

Day by day, day by day, and day by day,

quietly in the company of children I live.

In my sleeves, tiny embroidered balls, two or three.

Useless, intoxicated, in this peaceful spring.

                                                                      ~Ryokan*

budding

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Sky Above, Great Wind

K Tanahashi

weekly photo challenge: express yourself

Were there someone

in the world

who feels as I feel,

we would talk all night

in this grass hut.

                              ~Ryokan*

weeklyphotochallengeexpressyourself

visit The Daily Post to participate in Krista’s photo challenge:  express yourself

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Sky Above, Great Wind

Kazuaki Tanahashi

at times I hear…

One thousand peaks merge with frozen clouds;

ten thousand paths have no human trace.

Day by day just facing the wall,

at times I hear snow drift over the window.

                                                                          ~Ryokan*

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*cited:

Sky Above, Great Wind

Kazuaki Tanahashi

weekly photo challenge: shadowed

We meet and we part.

Coming and going–hearts like passing clouds.

Except for the marks of a frosty-hair brush,

human traces are hard to find.

                                                                 ~Ryokan*

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visit The Daily Post to view or participate in Jen’s photo challenge: shadowed

*cited:

Sky Above, Great Wind

Kazuaki Tanahashi